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US 12,327,429 · App. 18/512,750 · Granted Jun 10, 2025

Customer analysis apparatus, customer analysis method, and non-transitory storage medium

Inventors: Makiko Akiguchi (Tokyo, JP); Azusa Furukawa (Tokyo, JP); Kei Shibuya (Tokyo, JP); Kan Arai (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Hashimoto (Tokyo, JP); Ken Hanazawa (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
G06V40/168G06Q30/0201G06T7/246G06T7/292G06T11/00G06V20/52G06T2210/16
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Patent No.
US 12,327,429
App. No.
18/512,750
Granted
Jun 10, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A customer analysis apparatus ( 10 ) includes an image acquisition unit ( 110 ) and an image processing unit ( 120 ). The image acquisition unit ( 110 ) acquires a first image generated by a first image capture unit ( 22 ) and a second image generated by a second image capture unit ( 24 ). The image processing unit ( 120 ) processes the first image and the second image. More specifically, the image processing unit ( 120 ) generates product information indicating a product ( 50 ) taken out from a product shelf ( 40 ), by processing the first image and the second image. Further, the image processing unit ( 120 ) generates customer attribute information of a customer taking out the product ( 50 ), by processing the first image. Then, the image processing unit ( 120 ) causes a result storage unit ( 130 ) to store the product information and the customer attribute information in association with each other.

Claims (17)

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

at least one memory storing instructions; and

at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:

acquiring an image in which a customer is captured;

generating at least one of shoe information and wearing article information by processing the acquired image, the shoe information indicating whether shoes worn by the customer are dry or wet and the wearing article information indicating any one of a mask, sunglasses, glasses, and a hair band worn by the customer over a face or on a head; and

displaying a display information, which is determined based on the generated at least one of the shoe information and the wearing article information, on a display apparatus.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the display information is advertisement information.

3. An information processing method executed by a computer and comprising:

acquiring an image in which a customer is captured;

generating at least one of shoe information and wearing article information by processing the acquired image, the shoe information indicating whether shoes worn by the customer are dry or wet and the wearing article information indicating any one of a mask, sunglasses, glasses, and a hair band worn by the customer over a face or on a head; and

displaying a display information, which is determined based on the generated at least one of the shoe information and the wearing article information, on a display apparatus.

4. The information processing method according to claim 3 , wherein the display information is advertisement information.

5. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program executable by a computer to perform an information processing method comprising:

acquiring an image in which a customer is captured;

generating at least one of shoe information and wearing article information by processing the acquired image, the shoe information indicating whether shoes worn by the customer are dry or wet and the wearing article information indicating any one of a mask, sunglasses, glasses, and a hair band worn by the customer over a face or on a head; and

displaying a display information, which is determined based on the generated at least one of the shoe information and the wearing article information, on a display apparatus.

6. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 5 , wherein the display information is advertisement information.

Continuity (2)
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